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West Virginia Disability Data Table From the 2002 American Community Survey

Estimates for 2002

An estimated 413,000 people in West Virginia have a disability, or 24.8% of the population age 5 and over. An estimated 70,000 people, or 4.2% of the population 5 and over, have difficulty performing self-care activities, also known as Activities of Daily Living, such as dressing, bathing, or getting around inside the home.

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Prevalence of overall disability and of self-care difficulty, by gender, age, race and ethnicity, type of disability, family income, benefit recipiency, employment status, and living arrangement.
Subject Population (Thousands) With a disability (Thousands) With a disability (Percent) With a self-care difficulty (Thousands) With a self-care difficulty (Percent)
Total in West Virginia
(ages 5 and over)		 1,662 413 24.8% 70 4.2%
Disability Type
Sensory   115   27 23.3%
Mobility   267   64 24.1%
Cognitive   150   40 26.6%
Self-care   70   70  
Leaving the home   126   51 40.2%
Work disability   235   54 23.1%
Gender
Male 801 201 25.2% 33 4.1%
Female 862 211 24.5% 37 4.3%
Age
Children (5-17) 289 25 8.7% 3 0.9%
5-15 244 21 8.5% 2 1.0%
16-17 45 4 10.0% 0 0.9%
Working Ages (18-64) 1,108 237 21.3% 34 3.1%
18-44 629 89 14.2% 13 2.1%
45-64 479 147 30.7% 21 4.4%
Elderly (65+) 265 151 56.9% 33 12.5%
65-74 145 70 48.0% 14 9.5%
75-84 96 60 63.1% 12 12.2%
85+ 25 21 85.1% 8 30.6%
Race
White 1,597 394 24.7% 68 4.3%
African American 55 17 30.4% 2 2.9%
Asian/Pacific Islander 9 0 3.7% 0 0.8%
American Indian/Alaska Native 11 4 40.8% 0 4.4%
Ethnicity
Hispanic 12 2 14.5% 0 3.7%
Non-Hispanic 1,651 411 24.9% 70 4.2%
Family Income
In poverty 277 95 34.3% 13 4.8%
Above poverty 1,382 317 22.9% 57 4.1%
Benefit Recipiency
Social Security (OASDI) 357 215 60.2% 47 13.1%
Supplemental Security Income 59 58 97.3% 12 19.9%
Employment (Ages 18-64)
Employed 694 71 10.2% 5 0.8%
Unemployed (in labor force) 53 8 14.9% 1 1.6%
Not in labor force 360 158 43.8% 28 7.8%
Living Arrangement
Lives alone 212 102 48.0% 18 8.5%
Lives with others 1,450 311 21.4% 52 3.6%

Source: Tabulations by the Center for PAS from the 2002 American Community Survey (ACS).


About the West Virginia 2002 ACS Disability Data

The Center for Personal Assistance Services has compiled state and national data on the prevalence of overall disability and of self-care difficulty, by gender, age, race and ethnicity, type of disability, family income, benefit recipiency, employment status, and living arrangement. These statistics are based on our tabulations of public use data from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey (ACS) for 2002, containing information on over 1 million residents of randomly selected U.S. households. Because it is a household survey, people living in institutions such as nursing homes are not included.


Current & previous years of disability data from the ACS:

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